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Syllabus: LLC 641 Spring 2006; 7:30pm Tuesdays; FA001 Unit One: Community Unit Two: Computer-assisted Writing Unit Three: Literacy ** Reading assignments are to be completed [so that you are prepared for discussion] for class as indicated below. For example, be prepared to discuss all of the introduction and chapters one-three of Virtual Community, when you come to class on Feb.3.
Week one Introduce Unit One: Community; Web evaluation of communities
Week two Virtual Community (VC): Introduction ,Chapter One: The Heart of the WELL , Chapter Two: Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place, Chapter Three: Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net; [collaborative presentation on VC]; Independent Presentation
Week three Virtual Community: Chapter Four: Grassroots Groupminds, Chapter Five: Multi-user Dungeons and Alternate Identities, Chapter Six: Real-time Tribes, Chapter Seven: Japan and the Net [collaborative presentation on VC] ; Independent Presentation
Week four Virtual Community: Chapter Eight: Telematique and Messageries Rose: A Tale of Two Virtual Communities, Chapter Nine: Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists, Chapter Ten: Disinformocracy; [collaborative presentation on VC]; Essay One due for peer review; Independent Presentation
Week five Introduce Unit Two: Computer-assisted Writing; Writing New Media [WNM]; Essays pages 1-110; Collaborative Presentation; Essay One Due
Week six Writing New Media [WNM]; Essays pages 110-236; Collaborative Presentation
Week seven Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies[PPCT], Introduction and Part One: Refiguring Notions of Literacy in an Electronic World; [collaborative presentation on PPCT] ; Independent Presentation
Week eight Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, Part Two: Revisiting Notions of Teaching and Access in an Electronic Age; [collaborative presentation on PPCT]; Essay Two due for peer review; Independent Presentation
Week nine Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, Part Three: Ethical and Feminist Concerns in an Electronic World; [collaborative presentation on PPCT]; Essay Two due; Independent Presentation
Week ten Introduce Unit Three: Literacy Literacy a critical sourcebook, Introduction and Part One: Technologies for Literacy; [collaborative presentation on L]; topic due for final essay; Independent Presentation
Week eleven Literacy a critical sourcebook [L], Part Two: Literacy, Knowledge, and Cognition, essays 6,7,9,10 and Part Three: Histories of Literacy in the US, essays 12, 13; [collaborative presentation on L]; audience and use analysis and bibliography due for final essay; Independent Presentation
Week twelve Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Three: Histories of Literacy in the US, essays 14, 15, 16, 17 and Part Four: Literacy Development, essays 18, 19; [collaborative presentation on L] ; Independent Presentation
Week thirteen Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Four: Literacy Development, essays 20, 21, 22, 23 and Part Five: Culture and Community, essays 24, 25; [collaborative presentation on L]; final essay due for Peer review; Independent Presentation
Week fourteen Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Five: Culture and Community, essays 26, 27, 28 and Part Six: Power, Privilege, and Discourse, essays 29, 30, 31; [collaborative presentation on L] ; Independent Presentation; Final Essay Due
Week fifteen Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Six: Power, Privilege, and Discourse, essays 32, 33, and Part Seven: Mobilizing Literacy: Work and Social Change; [collaborative presentation on L]; final in-class reflective essay; Independent Presentation
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